BuzzFeed has given its political editor, Benny Johnson, the boot for allegedly copying entire sentences and phrases from other sites, such as Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers and U.S. News & World Report, without giving the respective authors credit. According to sources, the plagiarism came to light last week after Twitter users began discussing instances where Johnson had lifted text from other sites, and Buzzfeed subsequently reviewed some 500 post penned by Johnson, revealing nearly 50 examples of blatant plagiarism. The news and entertainment website terminated Johnson's employment on Friday evening, and the site's editor in chief, Ben Smith, issued a statement saying that the plagiarism is “a breach of our fundamental responsibility to be honest with you" and held that its editors are in the process of attaching an editor's note to every instance of plagiarism. Johnson, 28, took to his Twitter to share an apology: "To the writers who were not properly attributed and anyone who ever read my byline, I am sincerely sorry."